Being married to the Victorian author Charles Dickens was definitely not the best of times. Long-hidden letters reveal that Dickens sought to have his wife, Catherine, forcibly consigned to an institution — a scheme that fell apart when doctors found no evidence of mental illness in the woman. At first,...
When Freddie Mercury sang, Mama, life had just begun, in the second verse of Bohemian Rhapsody, he probably didn't have an audience of fetuses in mind. Let's consider it a happy coincidence, then, that unborn babies really do seem to love Queen. According to a new, as-yet-unpublished study by the...